Speaking

Daniel Hinkley speaks frequently throughout North America, Europe, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. He attempts to speak to the strengths of each area in its phytogeographical sense, i.e., what plants will survive your climatic and edaphic conditions. Dan strives to create a presentation that is visually entertaining and custom tailored to the specific audience and to their degree of obsession by botanical lasciviousness.

Speaking Topics

1. New and Exciting Perennials, Shrubs, Vines and Trees for American Gardens
2. The Mixed Border Throughout the Year; Elements for Year-round Interest
3. Drought Tolerant Plants
4. The Garden in Winter
5. Ornamental Vining Plants and How to Use Them
6. Plant Collectors; Past and Present
7. Plant Collecting In: (mix or match*) Nepal, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Tasmania, South Africa, Turkey, Sikkim, Bhutan
8. Gardening in Shade
9. Groundcovers for Sun and Shade
10. The Garden in Autumn
11. Flowering Shrubs and Trees for the Mixed Border
12. Making Heronswood
13. Take Two; Making Windcliff
14. Connoisseur’s Table; Exceptional Plants (request sun, shade or a combination appropriate for your hardiness and heat zone)
15. Exclamation, Accentuation, Punctuation (using digitally altered images for comparison, stressing design elements in the garden, including textural foliage, repetition of color and form and the importance of the vertical element)
16. Shrubs and Vines from the Four Corners of the World
17. The Forgotten Elements of Good Design; Texture, Movement and Fragrance

* please note that the flora of certain countries are more appropriate for your climate than others. These talks can be put together to include more than one country however I suggest you limit multiple country talks to 3 or less for the sake of continuity to the lecture. Regional groupings, such as Plant Collecting in Asia

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Daniel J. Hinkley

Teacher, writer, lecturer, consultant, nurseryman, naturalist, gardener. Above all, he is committed to solid and sustainable horticultural practices, above average garden plants, landscapes of distinction and raising the collective awareness of the diversity of plant life on Earth as well as the magic and mysteries of our natural world. Learn more…